Eleven year old Trinity sat very still as her long light brown hair was being brushed out by her nanny. Her twin sister Serenity sat at the end of her bed and yawned. It was yet another boring day at the Ray household. Their parents where off on yet another charity event that the four Ray children where not allowed to attend. Leaving them home to be taken care of by the staff of the house. Trinity looked at her nanny's reflection and smiled at her. Missy, the children's nanny, had been a lifesaver when she showed up for a cook interview. All four kids had taken a shine to the woman of mid twenties and was offered the nanny position instead.
"Must you always sit there and wallow?" Trinity asked as she watched her sister through the reflection of the mirror. Serenity stuck her tongue out at her twin then turned her head as she pouted about being called out. Trinity rolled her eyes and turned to face her sister. "Get over it Seren. Mum and dad will be home in a few hours. Must you always pull a pitty party every time they leave?"
"They have gone out every day this week." Destiny, the twins youngest sibling, said a bit bitterly from her spot on Trinity's bed. "Let her be Trin. We are all missing them."
"Not me." Trinity said with a sneer as she turned back to looking at her reflection in the mirror. She gave Missy a pointed look and the nanny quickly went back to brushing the girl's hair. Missy had learned from recent mistakes that she needed to keep her mouth shut when the children started to talk about their regularly absent parents. The children where used to being left alone with the help, only seeing their parents a couple times a week for a meal or two. Or the occasional family outing.
"Where on Earth is Amity?" Trinity asked with a heavy sigh. As if the girl knew she was being talked about, Amity walked into the room. She smirked over at her eldest sibling and smiled sweetly at her. She flipped her dark blonde hair over her shoulder and took a seat next to Destiny. Trinity rolled her eyes and let Missy brush her hair as the room fell into a silent boredom. It was always a long process to get the girls to bed. Each needing their long light brown to blonde hair brushed out and braided into pig tails. Each needing changed into their pajamas and each tucked in to their beds. The process could take quite some time. Nights like this taking the longest. Missy suspected it had to do with the girls avoiding bed in hopes to get a glimpse in Mrs. Ray in one of her elegant dresses. On this night. None of the girls had suspected that their lives where about to change in the morning.
XOXOXOXOX
That next morning as the girls sat at the long mahogany dining room table for breakfast, the butler brought their mother the mail. She was clearly not that interested in it. Mostly because of the small headache she had from the moment she had woken up that morning. Her usually elegantly done blonde hair was sitting on top of her head in a messy bun and the make up from the night before was smeared all over her face. Even her usually dark blue eyes seemed darker than usual. She glanced at who the letters where to and separated them, then handed them back to Bronson the young attractive butler. Bronson nodded then went down the table, handing the mail to it's recipient. Most of the mail where magazines the girls had subscribed to and the rest where bills for their father, who was still absent from the breakfast table.
Trinity and Serenity looked at each other in surprise when they saw a letters addressed to them. Serenity picked her's up and turned it in her hands. A old fashioned wax seal had sealed the letter shut with a crest of some kind printed above it. Serenity raised an eyebrow at her sister.
Is this a joke? Serenity asked in her head.
Only one way to find out. Trinity's voice said back in her head. The girls took a deep breath and opened their letters.
Serenity read over her letter as Trinity did the same. She had to read it over a few times before the words actually set in. This has got to be a joke.
"Um, mom?" Trinity said sliding her letter over to her mother, who was hiding her eyes in her hands. Claire Ray looked down at the letter her eldest, by thirteen minutes, slid her way. The green writing danced around the page as her eyes tried their best to focus. As the words settled down Claire got the first line read: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"My god." Claire said with a gasp as she covered her mouth in shock. She looked up at her two eldest daughter's as her porcelain skin turned ghost white.
"Mom? Are you alright?" Destiny asked worriedly. Claire looked at her youngest and cleared her throat to gain her composure.
"Yes sweetheart." Claire replied as she stood from her chair. She then turned to her twins. "You two. Follow me."
She quickly exited the dining room with her twins a bit farther behind. They where a bit worried that they where in trouble. They followed their mother down the long hallway and up the back stairwell till they reached Stephen Ray's study. Claire knocked lightly on the door and her husband opened the door a few minutes later.
"I am quite busy darling. Can this possibly wait?" He asked not even noticing his eldest children standing behind their mother. Claire thrust the letter at her husband. He recognized it at once. His sister had received one just like it as a child. Stephen glanced down at his daughters, opened the door wide, and signaled for them to enter. A place the children had never been. "We had better talk about this then."
He didn't seem shocked like his wife had been. There was no anger in his voice. It almost sounded disappointed. He waited for his twins and wife to take a seat before he sighed and read the letter over.
"I was hoping this day would never come. But Gloria had told me it could happen." Stephen said placing the letter down on the desk he was leaning against. "Do either of you remember me talking about my sister?"
"Aunt Claudia?" Serenity asked and she wrinkled her nose. She had never been very fond of her aunt. She seemed a bit odd. And always smelled of garlic.
"No, I had another sister. Just a year younger than Claudia. The youngest of my siblings." Stephen said calmly. "She, just like the two of you, had received a letter like this when she was eleven. She had always been a bit different than the rest of us. Odd things seemed to happen around her. Windows would break when she got angry. We found her in the Attic once after she just disappeared into thin air during a game of tag. Well she attended this special school for children like her and yourselves. She grew up to be an amazing young woman and worked for an organization that protected special people like her. But a bad man killed her shortly after your mother and I found out we where expecting you. Before she died, she told us that we could have special children like her."
"You sure are using that word special a lot." Trinity said crossing her arms across her chest. "Are we some kind of freaks?"
"Oh no no honey." Claire said as she petted both her daughter's hair. "Your aunt Gloria was a wonderful person. You should be proud to be like her."
"Why haven't we ever heard of her then?" Trinity asked giving her father an accusing look.
"Because we where not sure if you where like her." Stephen replied. "Your Aunt Gloria died horribly. I was deep down hoping that my little girls would never have the fate she did."
"You aren't making this sounds any better." Serenity said with wide frightened eyes.
"You both are witches." Stephen said with a huge smile. "This Hogwarts school, Gloria said was the best school a wizarding child could ever attended. But I must admit, I am a bit surprised to see this letter. I never suspected a thing from the two of you."
Claire smiled and kissed the forehead of each daughter. "Maybe you should contact your parents dear. See if they remember how to get supplies for the girls."
Serenity and Trinity exchanged confused looks as their parents rambled on and on about what the next step would be and if the other girls should be made aware.
Witches? Serenity thought in a weak frightened sounding voice.
Wicked. Trinity answered with a devilish smirk.
XOXOXOXO
Trinity sat back in her compartment and stared out the window as she waited for her twin to return from her exploration of the Hogwarts Express. Trinity had decided they had many years to come traveling by the train and didn't feel the needed to explore. She knew Serenity was the more people friendly out of all the Ray children and Trinity was more of the loaner. She felt the only true friend she needed was her twin. And possibly her other two sisters as well. So staying out of sight felt like the better choice so not to be forced to communicate with these strangers she would soon call classmates.
"Trin! This train is amazing!" Serenity said finally returning to the compartment and flinging herself down on the opposite seat.
"You'd think with all this magic they could make this trip a bit faster." Trinity replied with a bored yawn. Serenity rolled her eyes as she sat up in her seat. She was just about to scold her sister when a blonde boy slid open the compartment door. Behind him stood two large gorilla looking boys making the blonde look quite small in comparison.
"May we help you?" Trinity snapped at him. The boy's gray eyes glanced over the two girls and smirked.
"First year I take it." The boy said taking a step in to the compartment and took a seat next to Serenity.
"Go ahead. Have a seat." Trinity said as she rolled her dark blue eyes. "Is it the way of wizards to be quite rude?"
"Trinity!" Her sister scolded. She then turned to the boy. "Ignore my sister. She can be quite rude herself."
They boy eyes both girls. "Muggle born I take it."
Serenity smiled and nodded her head. "Our aunt was a muggle born witch too. But our parents are muggles."
"I never would have guessed with your robes." The boy sneered as he looked Trinity up and down. "Didn't realize your kind could afford such fine robes."
"Daddy only buys the best." Trinity replied with a slight smirk. "Why not spoil his two little witches? Do tell, is there something wrong with having rich muggle parents boy? Or did you come to bury yourself into a much deeper whole?"
Serenity had a suspension that Trinity had run into this boy before. Usually Trinity didn't put up with being talked to as if she was less than what she believed she was. But this almost seemed like a game to her.
"Dear sister, I'd like you to meet the infuriating boy named Draco Malfoy."Trinity said leaning her elbows on her knees and leaning forward as if challenged the boy. "I do believe I told you of our small encounter at Diagon Ally."
Trinity quickly sent her sister a memory of her meeting the boy in the wand shop. how he had spoke ill of muggle borns with out even knowing Trinity's background.
Serenity's jaw dropped as she scooted away from the boy. "You sure do have quite the nerve."
Draco sneered again and got to his feet. "Must be off. Wouldn't want the stench of a mudblood to ruin my new robes."
"Pretty sure your stench is all any one can smell." Trinity spat back at him. "did you bath in cologne?"
"It smells a bit familiar." Serenity said with a wicked smirk towards her sister. "I do believe you have the woman's version of it Trin. Spoiled brat I believe it's called."
Trinity glared over at her sister. "Stay out of this Seren. Let me finish the prat. I was on such a role."
"Can't let you have all the fun." Serenity said with a smirk then turned her attention towards Draco and his two friends. "Are you still here? Do go away. Your stench is giving me a headache."
The boy turned on his heals and threw his nose in the air. He stopped in the door way and turned his icy gray eyes back to Trinity. "This isn't over."
Trinity shrugged and yawned as if she was quite bored by the boy. "You know where to find me if you get some better material. Till then I suppose."
Draco slammed the door shut and the girls burst into fits of laughter.
"What a jerk!" Serenity said as she got herself comfortable in her seat again. "I do hope that's the last we see of him."
Trinity shrugged and looked back out the window. "I kind of like the poor boy. His material is quite lame I must admit."
"He did seem able to hold his own against you." Serenity admitted. "I have only known myself and our sisters to be able to carry on such banter with you. The poor boy has no clue what he has gotten himself into. Please at least go easy on him. We may have to put up with him for the next seven years."
"I do hope not to be honest." Trinity said with a wicked smile. "I don't think I could take seven years with that boy. He may find himself hexed in the halls if I have to put up with him that long."
To the twins dismay. They where going to see a lot of Draco Malfoy. And they knew it the moment Serenity was called up to be sorted. The older witch in black and hair pinned in a tight bun in the back of her head, placed the sorting hat on the girls head. A few minutes later the hat yelled out the girl's fate.
"Slytherin!"
Serenity's eyes at once landed on her sister as she got up and walked down the steps to where the Slytherin house sat in awe. It had already gone down the line of Slytherin students that she was Muggle born. And Serenity knew who the culprit of the whisper chain was. The blonde hair boy was watching Serenity intently as she sat down across from him. Oblivious to the student next to her moving away. Making sure there was quite some space between them.
"Ray, Trinity." The Witch called impatiently. Trinity realize that her name had already been called once. She took a deep breath and took slow tentative steps up to the stool. Her eyes never leaving her sister. She sat down and waited for the hat to call out the same house her sister had been sorted in. But it didn't call the same house. Far from it.
"Gryffindor!"
The Gryffindor table cheered as the received yet another first year. Trinity stood and walked down the stairs. She ignored a few students who where calling her over and she beelined it to her sister. She pulled her sister to her feet in a bear like hug and glared over at Draco. She let go of her sister and pointed an accusing finger at him.
"If I hear the slightest whisper that you are mean to my sister, you will have me to deal with." Trinity snapped at him. She didn't care that the whole school was watching. "And believe me. I will know in seconds of it happening."
"Is that a threat Ray?" Draco smirked knowing she was on the verge of getting in trouble before school even officially started.
"That's a bloody promise." Trinity growled back at him. She gave her sister a knowing look and took a seat at her table. She had ignored the warnings of quite a few of the teachers and knew that all eyes where on her.
"Miss Ray, I do know you are used to being held at a higher standard in your world, but here we will not stand for such things. I will let you off with a warning this time. But next time you will be seeing me in detention." Trinity looked up at the witch holding the sorting hat with a blank look on her face. The woman didn't seem to like the fact she had gotten no reaction from her so she continues. "Do I make my self clear?"
"Yes." Trinity replied. Crystal.
Stop it. Serenity said back and her sister could be heard giggling from her table. Her house mates giving her a odd look. To them she had giggled for no reason at all.
XOXOXOXO
The next morning Trinity was sitting at her table by herself eating whatever food seemed appealing at the moment. When she heard her sister cry out in pain. She quickly got to her feet and looked around before she realized she had yelled out in her head.
Where are you? Trinity demanded at once.
The jerk tripped me! Serenity said with a growl. Out the great Hall doors down towards the dungeon. Take a left at the end of the stairs. I'll stall him. Let's mess with the spoiled prat.
Serenity didn't have to say any more. Trinity was already making her way out of the great Hall and towards where her sister said she was. Trinity was surprised she found it so well. But talking to each other wasn't the only thing they could do through their mind connection. They could also send images. Showing each other what they had seen of the castle from of the comfort of their beds that night.
"That's sweet." Trinity heard a girl say with a giggle. "Where is your protector now? Not so tough with out your sister are you?"
Trinity came around the corner to see Draco and a pug looking girl backing Serenity into a corner. The moment Serenity got sight of her twin the frightened act she had put on melted away and she smirked devilishly at her two attackers.
"Oh I don't need my sister." Serenity said with a giggle. "I just invite her to enjoy the show."
Draco gave the girl an odd look before he heard the footsteps coming up behind him. His eyes grew large in surprise when he saw Trinity slowly walking their way.
"How did you get down here?" Draco eyes the girl as she casually walked around him and put her arm around her sister's shoulder.
"This is a Slytherin only area." The pug girl said looking at Trinity in disgust. "You're not allowed."
"Yeah I'm not one for rules." Trinity said with a smirk.
"Horrible following rules." Serenity said with a nod.
"How did you know where we where?" Draco asked looking at her in suspicion. There was no way she could have found them that fast.
"I told you. Do something to my sister and I'll know in seconds." Trinity said with a cocky smile. "Take this as your first warning. I don't give out seconds."
Serenity and Trinity walked away in a fit of laughter. Draco turned and watched the twins walk away, ignoring Pansy huffing next to him. He found himself mildly interested in the two girls. Both with the same light brown hair. Serenity's a slight shade lighter if you looked close enough. Both had dark blue eyes. He had never seen any one with eyes like theirs. Like a midnight sky. They both had light delicate freckles scattered across their faces, button noses, and full plump lips. They even had the same beauty mark next to their left eye. Standing next to each other, they where a mirror image of each other. Pansy elbowed Draco in the side and he quickly came back to his senses.
"Just wait till they hear about the Slytherin reputation. Those filthy mudbloods won't be acting so smug then." Pansy spat as she crossed her arms and glared in the direction the twins had gone.
"One of them is a Slytherin Pansy." Draco said with a roll of his eye. He had a feeling the twins could care less about house reputation. But what he really wanted to know was how Trinity knew how to find them so easily on the first day. No one could be that lucky and he doubted that they knew any magic yet. He was bound and determined to get to the bottom of it.
